Feeling Precarious. Affects, emotions and the governance of bodies

Abstract

In Sentirse precari*s. Afectos, emociones y gobierno de los cuerpos converge a polyphony of voices that, from different perspectives, examine the ways in which precarity is unevenly distributed among bodies and investigate the affective narratives available in the social order. In this sense, they present an arduous analysis of the affective economy in which trans, homosexual, queer, immigrant and trigger-happy-victim bodies are inscribed, marked by state abandonment and cis-heteronormative neoliberal violence; at the same time that they make visible resistant affects, failures of the norm whose existence is a political act that materializes another way of feeling and inhabiting the world. The book complements the theory with situated approaches and will undoubtedly be of great interest to all those who wish to venture into the debate on the role of affects.